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COVID positive

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

St. Catharines, 2022.08.08

Today I had a positive COVID PCR test. When I went to check on my flight to determine what my options were, I was shocked to discover that my flight had been cancelled. The Niagara Region health authority had shared the news of my positive result with Transport Canada or perhaps the airline or the airport .. anyway, they acted.

I'm staying in Canada.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov